Leaving Hospet and Hampi quite early in the morning on the train we’d come here on from Hyderabad, we continued on to our train’s final destination, Goa, although we got off one stop early at Madgaon, or Margao as the town’s also known as – this double name thing doesn’t half make travel confusing at […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last night’s train journey, at 15 hours and 600 miles, was the longest one in our plan and if we didn’t catch it we’d have a problem on our hands, so being cautious I’d booked a backup train. To minimise cancellation costs I needed to cancel the backup train before we caught the planned one. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Delhi disappears into the distance along the train tracks as we head off on our first sleeping class train – the previous two have been day time Shatabdi trains – to Gwalior, a city which certainly isn’t on the standard tourist path but could easily be if it promoted itself a little more. It’s got […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Booking trains for the last trip was a breeze (http://big-cats-and-holy-ghats.winchcombe.org/post/Booking-Trains.aspx). All you had to do was to figure where you wanted to go; use erail.in to check on train availability; book the train using www.irctc.co.in. The only tricky part was that if you had an international credit card you had to select the Axis payment […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
